VIA bus crashes into home

By Drew Joseph :
October 27, 2013
: Updated: October 27, 2013 4:36pm

A VIA bus crashed into a home on East Houston Sunday afternoon after swerving to try to avoid hitting a car. No one was injured.

Photo By Drew Joseph/San Antonio Express-News

A VIA bus crashed into a home on East Houston Sunday afternoon after swerving to try to avoid hitting a car. No one was seriously injured.

SAN ANTONIO — A VIA bus crashed into an East Side home Sunday afternoon after the driver swerved to try to avoid hitting a car, police said. No one was seriously injured.

The bus was traveling east on East Houston around 1:15 p.m. when a car was trying to cross Houston on North Grimes Street, police said. The bus veered but still hit the car, and then jumped the curb and drove through two front yards before crashing into the front porch of a home on the 2700 block of East Houston.

No passengers were on the bus, and the driver was not hurt, said Officer Fabian Guevara. The driver of the car was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

Linda Blackwell, who has lived at the house for 21 years, said she had been out on the porch and had just come inside to check on some food she was cooking when the bus ran into her home.

Her grandson and his girlfriend were also at the home, but no one was hurt.